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… Mythological precedents Like many aspects of traditional Māori culture, waiata have mythological precedents. Deities … pūtōrino flute is modelled. The whare tapere Traditional Māori waiata are also connected to the whare tapere, a … Te Ahukaramū Royal notes, ‘Whare Tapere were pre-European Māori village “houses” and events of entertainment and …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori songs – waiata tawhito
… reflecting the interests of children, young people and Māori has developed more recently, as have Theatresports and … Ceroc have gained popularity. Ethnic dance also has a long history, with Scottish and Irish folk-dancing clubs being … with 12 members, must perform all disciplines of kapa haka (Māori performing arts) within 12 minutes. Performers are …
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Part of story: Creative life
… the arrival of Europeans, it was home to a substantial Māori pā called Aparima, the inhabitants attracted by the … John Howell established a whaling station there. He took a Māori woman of high rank as his wife and thereby acquired a … is 12 km west of Riverton/Aparima. The area has a long history of Māori settlement. European settlers arrived to …
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Part of story: Southland places
… In the 1850s Taukē was a supporter of the move to have a Māori king. He was present at Pūkawa, Lake Taupō, when … troops searched the houses looking for arms and destroying Māori property, Taukē wavered in his Christian faith. … he had become the guardian of his people's tribal lore and history. …
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… in ordinary things’. 1 His Catholic upbringing and Māori heritage underpinned much of his work, which … placed him ‘at the forefront of mainstream New Zealand art history. But in a sense he also stands outside of it, both as a Māori and as one of the most cosmopolitan, sophisticated, …
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… to fight in the First World War. He sailed with the Second Māori Contingent on 19 September 1915 and saw service in … life he gained from his tribal elders a vast knowledge of Māori tradition, ceremonial and whakapapa. Kepa was … Ānaha Te Rāhui, set down a strong body of tribal history and whakapapa in the course of Te Arawa Native Land …
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… Range). The Featherston Heritage Museum explores the history of the Featherston Military Camp. History Featherston was first known as Burlings, after Henry Burling, who opened an accommodation house near the Māori settlement of Pae-O-Tu-Mokai in 1847. In 1856 the …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… universally agreed and definitive list of all human rights. History of the human-rights idea The expression ‘human … Treaty of Waitangi has sometimes been referred to as ‘the Māori Magna Carta’. The idea that human beings enjoy rights … they should enjoy. A further key rights document in English history is the Bill of Rights of 1688. This document …
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Part of story: Human rights
… A Māori Battalion veteran and the first Māori to qualify in accountancy, Hēnare Ngata became an … of the C Company Memorial Museum in Gisborne, the C Company history publication Nga Tama Toa (2008), or He Tipua , …
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… the other main Netherlands province. The commonly accepted Māori name for the country is Aotearoa (‘land of the long … use only in the late 19th century. There are also Māori names for both the North Island and the South Island, … and in 1977 given equal status with ‘God save the Queen’. A Māori translation of the first verse is often sung before …
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Part of story: Nation and government
… by them. From both families he learnt of Te Kooti's history, and absorbed his religious predictions which … after him to complete his work by redeeming the land for Māori. Rua claimed to be this man. He emerged from among the … from his mother's tribe, Tūhoe, as did his most formidable Māori opponent, the chief Kererū (Numia Te Ruakariata). His …
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… parents to schools. Ball's most important contribution to Māori education was to reverse the policy of Europeanisation … had meant that almost the only indication they were for Māori was the presence of Māori pupils. He was responding to … poi dances and Māori games, and used Māori stories in history lessons. In order to develop activities of this kind …
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… World War began, but by November was posted to the 28th (Māori) Battalion as its intelligence officer. In July 1940, … 25th Battalion as a company commander. He then rejoined the Māori Battalion as second in command with the rank of major. … loss of the two Māori colonels, Love and Baker. When the history of the battalion was being compiled, Kippenberger …
Type: Biography
… the country and objects made from them, and items about the history of the colony or which showed off its scenery. … and at Melbourne in 1888 there was a large live fernery. Māori Māori culture was strongly represented in New Zealand’s …
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Part of story: Exhibitions and world’s fairs
… and heightened criticism of a narrow cultural nationalism. Māori activists highlighted discrimination and looked to … nationalism and noted the condescending and superficial way Māori culture was used to express New Zealand identity, for … and called for diversity, not a national uniformity. History The anti-national viewpoint was so strong that even …
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Part of story: Arts and the nation
… Matamata. Schools From the 1830s missionary schools taught Māori reading, writing and manual skills. These schools … especially in Hamilton. From the mid-1980s kura kaupapa (Māori-language immersion schools) were set up – in the 2010s … on administration programmes and research on Waikato-Tainui history. Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, a Māori-run tertiary …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… he had won the lease of the building in a game of cards. Māori gamblers Māori soon became enthusiastic gamblers on cards and other … of Poker, the biggest poker tournament in New Zealand history. There were 306 participants, most of them …
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Part of story: Cards, board games and puzzles
… the hills. In June 1843, 22 Europeans and at least four Māori were killed at Tuamarina in a confrontation over land … school in Blenheim. In 1949, when contributing to a school history, she wrote that 'to be asked to write of Tua Marina … Bar Locality at the mouth of the Wairau River, known to Māori as Te Pokohiwi, where a gravel bar impeded navigation …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… was a cultured man. He read voraciously in literature, history (Maori and colonial especially), and cultural …
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… Rotorua – a Māori cultural centre As a major destination for early … tourism, Rotorua provided a good environment where Māori culture could become established on a commercial … in 1932, while the university was getting rid of a young history lecturer, J. C. Beaglehole, for his alleged …
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Part of story: Regional cultural life